Gene Hackman's China Marine Corp Service
Actor Served In China During Civil War
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4 March 2025 (Tuesday)
Gene Hackman's China Marine Corp Service
Actor Served In China During Civil War
TAIPEI - Gene Hackman served in the U.S. Marine Corp from 1947 to 1951 as a field radio operator and broadcast journalist. Stationed in China, Hawaii, and Japan.
Joining the Marines at 16, he participated in Operation Beleaguer that evacuated stranded Japanese and Korean citizens after the chaos of World War 2 and in the midst of the Chinese Civil War between the Chinese Nationalists (KMT) and the Chinese Communists.
A note to our readers, in the 2000s the U.S. American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), via the Defense Attache Office (DAO), added part of the coin for their own DAO Challenge Coin to honor that tradition. The other side of the coin honors the Flying Tigers.
FYI: This is my favorite Gene Hackman scene from his greatest film: The French Connection (1971). I saw this film in the theater with my father. I was still too young to understand much of the plot beyond the unrelenting violence.
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